Famous Serrated Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Serrated poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous serrated poems. These examples illustrate what a famous serrated poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Bat

...wallows? 

Dark air-life looping 
Yet missing the pure loop ... 
A twitch, a twitter, an elastic shudder in flight 
And serrated wings against the sky, 
Like a glove, a black glove thrown up at the light, 
And falling back. 

Never swallows! 
Bats! 
The swallows are gone. 

At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats 
By the Ponte Vecchio ... 
Changing guard. 

Bats, and an uneasy creeping in one's scalp 
As the bats swoop overhead! 
Flying madly. 

Pipistrello! 
Blac...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.


Burning Oneself Out

...We can look into the stove tonight
as into a mirror, yes, 

the serrated log, the yellow-blue gaseous core 

the crimson-flittered grey ash, yes.
I know inside my eyelids
and underneath my skin 

Time takes hold of us like a draft
upward, drawing at the heats
in the belly, in the brain 

You told me of setting your hand
into the print of a long-dead Indian
and for a moment, I knew that hand, 

that print, that rock,
the ...Read more of this...
by Rich, Adrienne

Dandelions

...ir identity:

slender Giacomettis, Doré's convicts,
Rodin's burghers of Calais

with five bowed heads
and the weight of serrated keys . . . 

They wither into mystery, waiting
to find out why they are,

patiently, before nirvana
when the rain comes down like vitriol....Read more of this...
by Raine, Craig

The Great Adventure of Max Breuck

...ls were grapes,
Nailed close to feel the baking of the sun
From glowing bricks. Their microscopic shapes
Half hidden by serrated leaves. And one
Old cherry tossed its branches near the door.
Bordered along the wall, in beds between,
Flickering, streaming, nodding in the air,
The pride of all the garden, there were more
Tulips than Max had ever dreamed or seen.
They jostled, mobbed, and danced. Max stood at helpless 
stare.

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"Within the arbour, Mynheer Breuck, I'll bring
Co...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Maldive Shark

...nothing of harm to dread,
But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank
Or before his Gorgonian head;
Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth
In white triple tiers of glittering gates,
And there find a haven when peril's abroad,
An asylum in jaws of the Fates!
They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey,
Yet never partake of the treat --
Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull,
Pale ravener of horrible meat....Read more of this...
by Melville, Herman


Torn Shades

...y get torn-pulled down hard
too many times: to hide a blow,
or sex, or a man
in stained pajamas? The tear blade-shaped,
serrated, in tatters. And once,
in a house flatside to a gas station, 
as snow fell at a speed and angle you could lean on,
two small hands (a patch of throat, a whip
of hair across her face)-
two small hands
parting a torn shade
to welcome a wedge of gray sunlight into that room....Read more of this...
by Lux, Thomas

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